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Now you see it – Now you don’t (Broadcom cards and Vigor 2820 wireless)

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I recently had issues with the reliability of Broadcom cards and Vigor 2820 wireless adsl routers. Specifically the Broadcom cards were embedded ones in two different HP laptops – a 6715S and a Touchsmart Tx2. Given the difference in the cards I was fairly convinced that the answer lay with the router – but the […]

You are my everything ….

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I recover and transfer a lot of data from various machines that I work on for myself and clients. Sometimes I know what I’m looking for but not where it is – especially when recovering data from failing or failed drives. So when I want to know (and don’t want to wait for the abysmally […]

Happy to Meet – Sorry to part

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Some non IT related nostalgia this morning. Last night I went to what will be the second last concert by Irish Rockers Horslips after a gap of 29 years since their final Belfast Gigs performances. I have to say I never thought I would see the day again where I would hear these masters of […]

Nagios in your Vista sidebar

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Nagios is as I have mentioned many times before a useful monitoring tool that you can use to give yourself and your team the heads up about problems as soon as they are detected. The provision and presentation of information in Nagios is not as slick (at the moment) as some of the competition but […]

Is Microsoft taking the PST ?

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A colleague alerted me to the announcement that Microsoft claim to be readying the release of information explaining how the PST mail file format works. Its strange that at a recent IBM workshop I had wondered if there would ever be a non Microsoft native email client to challenge Outlook – then lo and behold […]